You was very lucky 🍀 with the weather , every time I go that way from Cornwall where I am , it rains like mad lol 😂, fair play you covered some ground. ATB Roger keep posting
What a cracking video! Real down to earth stuff. Strong winds, Babies Heads (tussocks), pitching in the dark, missing the sunrise. Admitting to knackeredness. I'm inspired.
What an adventure for you on your wild camp in Wales. I share your views on windy weather conditions. Know the feeling of facing challenges against fierce winds.
Saw you on paul mesner, the age you started the channel, so subbed to support you as you are a motivator to others, and you look great for your age very mobile.
That was a proper hike Rodger (hard Going is an understatement mate 🙌🙌) The water fall /up fall was impressive The Beacons as they really are mate (time lapse was 👌🏻) ATB Simon 🤠👍🏔️🏴
Disappointed. Cheese & Biscuits is a stable for any wild camp right? haha "bit off all that I can chew" as he bites into a rock hard Picnic hahah love it. But still a gorgeous journey
I hiked the dragons back and camped waun fach last night - the fields by castel Dinas there are insanely boggy despite looking clean. Like above boot deep despite looking like grass. I can’t imagine how boggy it was round where you were!
I’ve walked along the Beacons Way over Garreg las and remember looking at Tyle Garw thinking it looks like the moon because of all the rocks in between me and it!
Blimey! That looked wild country Roger.....quite Pennine in appearance and character and we also have vast tracts of those horrible Molinia tussocks too. I hope you make it back to the swallow hole, I'd like to see that. ATB, Chris
Yeah, unfinished business there I think. That grass is a bugger. There's a Wellington Bomber crash near there I'd like to find as well. Thanks for watching, Roger
That must have been some adventure, That area can be tough going off the main bridal track. I actully camped right next to Sinc Giedd september 1993, I remember it well it was my first two night camp in the Beacons. 👌 To see the whirlpool and the water disappearing under ground is one of the reason I remember the trip ATB 😉
Love it Roger - full view mate all the way. Gnarly in but you managed. Ah, the spirit of remoteness abounded there - I don't blame you for dropping down and pitching elsewhere. You were close enough. Good going. Mark
I love my atom 40. Got rid of a 60 litre and fit the same stuff in. I admit it’s a squeeze with full winter kit but I find if I put my tent in vertically in one of the side pockets and the xtherm in the other it’s fine. Also I put my zlite under the external bungees. Even in winter I only carry 10-11 kg. I save weight also with lone peak altras runners so comfortable I hardly ever swap them. (I save over a kg on my heavy boots. Most of the time they cope allied with sealskinz socks. Even when the water gets it my feet do stay warm Hope this helps or at least give one campers method. Atb
I can get my winter kit into my Mo50 but it's a squeeze I can't be bothered with. It's the bulky winter sleeping bag that makes the difference. I'm still working on reducing the bulk of some of my kit. I wore Lone Peaks all last year but the soles wore out very quickly. I now have Topos which have the same footbox but vibram soles. I have been wearing my boots lately due to the extreme bogginess this winter. Thanks for your comments. ATB, Roger
@@thewanderingforester Agreed. I need light weight and comfort (old age etc 67). Yes the Altra does wear quickly, but so comfy and light. I’ve a small foot but very wide. Hard to find a good fit. Topos look good thanks Roger. We all feed of each other. Atb
Sinc y giedd? I walked most of the way there in the rain once and found the landscape so bloody bleak and somehow more spooky or unsettling than the rest of the beacons I decided not to camp there
You was very lucky 🍀 with the weather , every time I go that way from Cornwall where I am , it rains like mad lol 😂, fair play you covered some ground. ATB Roger keep posting
What a cracking video! Real down to earth stuff. Strong winds, Babies Heads (tussocks), pitching in the dark, missing the sunrise. Admitting to knackeredness. I'm inspired.
Toddlers heads I reckon! Thanks for watching and for the comment.
What an adventure for you on your wild camp in Wales. I share your views on windy weather conditions. Know the feeling of facing challenges against fierce winds.
Yeah- winds can turn a decent walk into a struggle! Thanks for watching - ATB, Roger
Saw you on paul mesner, the age you started the channel, so subbed to support you as you are a motivator to others, and you look great for your age very mobile.
Thanks for that. Just decent genes I guess. Though I've been walking in the hill pretty much all my life, only started filming it in 2021.
That was a proper hike Rodger (hard
Going is an understatement mate 🙌🙌)
The water fall /up fall was impressive
The Beacons as they really are mate (time lapse was 👌🏻)
ATB Simon 🤠👍🏔️🏴
Yep, proper hike! I will get back out there soon to have a look at Sinc Geld before the streams dry up. Thanks for watching, Roger
I came over from Holmes and subscribed.
And you are very welcome.
Disappointed. Cheese & Biscuits is a stable for any wild camp right? haha "bit off all that I can chew" as he bites into a rock hard Picnic hahah love it. But still a gorgeous journey
Cheers Mike. Despite all the problems I really enjoyed that one. Cheese & biscuits will be back. ATB, Roger
I hiked the dragons back and camped waun fach last night - the fields by castel Dinas there are insanely boggy despite looking clean. Like above boot deep despite looking like grass. I can’t imagine how boggy it was round where you were!
The whole world seems to be a bog lately! Apart from the bogs the streams were really full as well. Thanks for watching, Roger
I’ve walked along the Beacons Way over Garreg las and remember looking at Tyle Garw thinking it looks like the moon because of all the rocks in between me and it!
It has got some interesting rock formations on it. Long little terraces with 3ft high faces. Thanks for watching, Roger
Blimey! That looked wild country Roger.....quite Pennine in appearance and character and we also have vast tracts of those horrible Molinia tussocks too. I hope you make it back to the swallow hole, I'd like to see that. ATB, Chris
Yeah, unfinished business there I think. That grass is a bugger. There's a Wellington Bomber crash near there I'd like to find as well. Thanks for watching, Roger
It did look pretty bleak, wild and isolated. A good place to hike and think.
Yes, plenty of space to get lost in thought out there. Very different to most of the Beacons. Thanks for watching, Roger
That must have been some adventure, That area can be tough going off the main bridal track. I actully camped right next to Sinc Giedd september 1993, I remember it well it was my first two night camp in the Beacons. 👌 To see the whirlpool and the water disappearing under ground is one of the reason I remember the trip ATB 😉
Rough hardly gets there to be honest The first bit of "off-piste" was awful! Must go back before the rains stop and the stream dries up.
Love it Roger - full view mate all the way. Gnarly in but you managed. Ah, the spirit of remoteness abounded there - I don't blame you for dropping down and pitching elsewhere. You were close enough. Good going. Mark
Thanks Mark. There's quite a lot of not very much out there on Mynydd Du. I'll approach it from a different direction next time!
@@thewanderingforesterA pleasure Roger - well I loved that nothingness mate. See you out there again sometime.
A overnight camp by that river would be good...
Just what I was thinking when I was there. Not too hard to get there as long as I don't try any clever navy stuff! Thanks for watching, Roger
at 1,500 subs, could you do a review of the filling station/greasey spoon pies/sandwiches/cakes /soft drinks you treat yourself to on the way home?
It's an idea, I might have to break the habit of going to the same few places all the time though. ATB, Roger
Nice one Roger, can you drop me a grid ref for Tyle Garw, I thought I knew the area quite well, obviously not 😊
Yes,sure. SN 78495 17813. I saw it on someone else's video which gave me the idea. Thanks for watching, Roger
I love my atom 40. Got rid of a 60 litre and fit the same stuff in. I admit it’s a squeeze with full winter kit but I find if I put my tent in vertically in one of the side pockets and the xtherm in the other it’s fine. Also I put my zlite under the external bungees. Even in winter I only carry 10-11 kg. I save weight also with lone peak altras runners so comfortable I hardly ever swap them. (I save over a kg on my heavy boots. Most of the time they cope allied with sealskinz socks. Even when the water gets it my feet do stay warm Hope this helps or at least give one campers method. Atb
I can get my winter kit into my Mo50 but it's a squeeze I can't be bothered with. It's the bulky winter sleeping bag that makes the difference. I'm still working on reducing the bulk of some of my kit. I wore Lone Peaks all last year but the soles wore out very quickly. I now have Topos which have the same footbox but vibram soles. I have been wearing my boots lately due to the extreme bogginess this winter. Thanks for your comments. ATB, Roger
@@thewanderingforester Agreed. I need light weight and comfort (old age etc 67). Yes the Altra does wear quickly, but so comfy and light. I’ve a small foot but very wide. Hard to find a good fit. Topos look good thanks Roger. We all feed of each other. Atb
Sinc y giedd? I walked most of the way there in the rain once and found the landscape so bloody bleak and somehow more spooky or unsettling than the rest of the beacons I decided not to camp there
Bleak is right. And at the moment its pretty much just one huge bog! Enjoyed it though. Thanks for watching, Roger